Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 101: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 102: "...He who sharpened the edge of hearts...."In Kunene's To The Soldier "Hero" is Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) a swordsman
  C) a blacksmith
  D) an artist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 103:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

  Options:
  A) rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  B) represent the image of African traditionalism
  C) condemn male chauvinism
  D) demonstrate the plight of widowhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 104:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 105: Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune encourages people to Options:
  A) accept life as it is
  B) condemn soothsaying
  C) move in the direction of God
  D) accept soothsaying
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The main significance of the fire in the novel is to

  Options:
  A) provide warmth
  B) roast meat
  C) provide warning
  D) provide signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 107: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the
  Options:
  A) increment of fortune for the pilgrims
  B) blind acceptance of faith
  C) hazards of the journey
  D) journey as an influential factor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 108:

  A character whose action or qualities serve to heighten those of the hero through contrast is__________

  Options:
  A) an antagonist
  B) a foil
  C) an adversary
  D) a protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 109:

  Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

  Options:
  A) Aroma
  B) Poetry
  C) Drama
  D) Prose
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  The preoccupation of the novel is

  Options:
  A) the life and times of Julian Odili
  B) Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
  C) the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
  D) the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
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  The correct answer is D .